Hello! I'm not going to join this jam unfortunately but I'm very interested in the comsole, never heard of it before. How do you code on a Playdate Console? Do you need to own one or can you just code it and WHAM its in the console? Probably the former now that i think about it. What proggramming language does it use/support?

You can use Lua or C, and don’t need a console to program for it as the SDK includes a simulator (though I’d be careful about doing too much at once cause performance isn’t the same in sim vs on console).

All the info and stuff is at https://play.date/dev/